I have ordered several railroad books that were period pieces and WAY out of print--like 100 years. As the information was once again in demand by historians and a few technicians the company had scanned them and whenever one was ordered--via internet, of course--they simply printed it out, bound it, and sent it out, all pretty much without more than 5 or 10 minutes of human attention. Now that's a good system. The company has thousands of titles of public domain publications on all topics. Try <www.perisopefilm.com> --Ediger
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mixon Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > I regret to say that I don't have a copy of the 300-year-old book that Terry > Plemons mentioned, but it can be downloaded from Google Books: > > http://books.google.com/books?id=c5Q5AAAAcAAJ > > Or just do a Google search for Woodward "Natural History of the Earth". > There's also a paperback 2010 reprint available from Amazon. It's gotten > really easy to make a facsimile reprint of a book as either a PDF file or a > paper book. I've done a two or three thousand pages of that sort of thing > for the Association for Mexican Cave Studies. > > Its full, old-fashioned title is "An Essay towards a Natural Hiſtory of the > Earth, and Terreſtrial Bodies, Eſpecially Minerals: As alſo of the Sea, > Rivers, and Springs. With an Account of the Universal Deluge: And of the > Effects that it had upon the Earth." London, second edition 1702. > > His research involved "taking a careful and exact view of Things on all > hands as they preſented; in order to inform my ſelf of the preſent Condition > of the Earth, and all Bodies contained in it, as far as either Grotto's, or > other Natural Caverns, or Mines, Quarries, Colepits, and the like let me > into it, and diſplayed to ſight the interiour Parts of it." > > Spoiler warning. It's all because of the Flood. -- Mixon > ---------------------------------------- > A chicken is the egg's way of making another egg. > ---------------------------------------- > You may "reply" to the address this message > came from, but for long-term use, save: > Personal: [email protected] > AMCS: [email protected] or [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
